Category Archives: media
NYT subscription base leaks
And, as Time magazine put it, it’s “you,” as long as you’re rich and powerful: Thanks for clearing that up.
Just a coincidence, of course
NYTeims ed, “Rethinking Criminal Sentences” (2010 July 27): Sentencing for white-collar crimes — and for child pornography offenses — “has largely lost its moorings,” according to the Justice Department, which makes a strong case that the matter should be re-examined by the United States Sentencing Commission. This probably makes more sense when you’re wearing a [...]
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Kodak moment:
: when an industry belatedly waked up (“sleeps in,” their managers would call) it and realizes it’s too late. BJ notes the end of Kodachrome: 1, 2.
Why cheat when you can lobby your congressperson to change the grading scale?
Students aspire to do all kinds of things, but ‘creating value’ isn’t one of the first things that most, if asked, would answer. What they end up doing may have that effect, but blithely relying on the creepy rubric to gloss over how they’d describe their own aspirations seems unwise. (Do Jägerbombs ‘create value’? Possibly [...]
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Journal of Journal Performance Studies
Nicholas Knouf’s official statement: I am very happy to announce the launching of the Journal of Journal Performance Studies. Journal of Journal Performance Studies (JJPS) is a series of three interrelated works that engage with academic publishing. The project consists of a Firefox extension, an online radio, and a journal. The JJPS Firefox Extension overlays [...]
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From the annals of innovation
Mary Jo Foley of Redmond Mag: Some enterprise users built internal line-of-business applications around IE6 — and are now stuck with it. Others are planning to run Windows XP into the ground — or at least until 2014, when Microsoft officially ends support for it. And because IE6 is what’s built into XP, that’s what [...]
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Abject Press
Following up on “Home naming is killing the, oh, nevermind…“ (2009 Dec 09), the Wikipedia entry on Ted Klaudt (“accessed,” as they say, 6 July 2010) reports: “Copyrighting” his name In December 2009, Ted Klaudt sent a “Common Law Copyright Notice” to the Associated Press and various state media outlets warning that use of his [...]
Camp
For too long, normal white people have had to sit by and watch the efflorescence of new forms of subjectivity and identity. True, some of them joined the fun — but many, in re/discovering themselves, found that they weren’t LGBT, weren’t involved in a multicultural relationship, didn’t have a blended family, and just weren’t marginal, [...]
Annals of overstatement: knolidge of archyology
NYTeims (Wilford, “Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days,” 2010-05-11): “Now we have a totality of data and see the entire landscape,” Dr. Arlen Chase said of the laser findings. “We know the size of the site, its boundaries, and this confirms our population estimates, and we see all this terracing and begin to [...]
Even George started small
A great improvement over an inexplicably beloved brand franchise:
Home naming is killing the, oh, nevermind…
IPR ideology trickles down: A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of [a bunch of awful stuff] has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent. A letter and an accompanying document labeled “Common Law Copyright Notice” said former state Rep. Ted [...]
An iPhone app you can wrap your fish in
The NYTeims tries out newspaper as website iPhone app as newspaper: The founder is no doubt spinning sliding in his grave.
“In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane”
Also sprach Hauptmann Kirk. LAT: With the birth of his son 15 years ago, dedicated linguist d’Armond Speers embarked on the ultimate experiment: He spoke to him only in Klingon — the language of the alien race of “Star Trek” fame — for the first three years of his life. “I was interested in the [...]
QOTD
Dan Pinchbeck, upset at Mark Dery: I do not think that there will be a “multidimensional realm of hyperspace triggered by mass activation of the pineal gland.” That quote was taken out of context, I can only presume intentionally. Onnaccounta this.
Queen, bishops, pawns
The Guardian (formerly known as Teh Grauniad but since displaced by the NY Teims) does a number on HM:
QOTD2
Paul Vixie: To underline our understanding of what DNS is, we must differentiate it from what it is not. The Internet economy rewards unlimited creativity in the monetization of human action, and fairly often this takes the form of some kind of intermediation. For DNS, monetized intermediation means lying. The innovators who bring us such [...]
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QOTD
Grimmelmann: Your avatar’s arms are never going to be long enough to box with a game god whose software controls arm length. Or, as we used to put it: he who would snack with the Devil must needs use a long spork… ( jotwell | froomkin )
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The Return of Martin Lukes?
One can only hope.
Flickr Pro, Flickr Con
Bernie Kerik’s Flickr photostream includes gems like Officer Kerik in ’93… …“plainclothes” (modulo the assault rifle) Kerik escorting Susan Rosenberg (ca. ’83?; SR playing ping pong here)… …authentic arrest scenes… …and, indeed, pretty much his entire rise and fall. Except for his mugshot: The kommissar disappears: (Left: Flickr, plemeljr, 8 Feb ’05 [detail]; right: m3t00, [...]
Futile style
(It’s tempting to ask why this lasts as long as it does, but to many that question would suggest that this is way too long; it may be so, but a better question is whyit lasts precisely as long as it does? Not a deep question — but this is a fine example of a [...]
“Counterintuitiveness”
Krugman: At first glance, though, what it looks like is that Levitt and Dubner have fallen into the trap of counterintuitiveness. For a long time, there’s been an accepted way for commentators on politics and to some extent economics to distinguish themselves: by shocking the bourgeoisie, in ways that of course aren’t really dangerous. [...] [...]
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There goes everybody
BBC reports: The Polish authorities in charge of Auschwitz have launched an official site for the former Nazi death camp on the social networking website Facebook. RT @auschwitz: “ ” (ts)
We have always been at nonpeace with Iran